Anton Chekhov. Profession: doctor and writer. "Medicine is my wife, literature my mistress. If one tires me, I go and spend the night with the other'. Willing to marry for real only under these conditions: ‘Give me a wife who is like the moon, who does not appear in my sky every night’.
The play analyses the extraordinary love of Anton Chekhov and the actress Ol'ga Knipper who were forced to live separately, he in Jalta because of his illness, she in Moscow because of her profession, but nevertheless united by a freedom of thought free of prejudice and determined to respect each other's autonomy. A game of cross-references and mirrors, a space of memory where the chronological shattering of the text and the multiplication of certain characters from the Czech plays live in freedom.
by
Antonio Ballerio
based on the biography and texts of
Anton Cechov
directed
Antonio Ballerio
with
Antonio Ballerio, Camilla Parini, Simon Waldvogel, Tatiana Winteler
stage space and costumes
Margherita Baldoni
music
Zeno Gabaglio
lighting
Matteo Crespi
assistant director
Massimiliano Zampetti
production
LAC Lugano Art and Culture
Antonio Ballerio is an actor and director. He has worked with prestigious actors of the Italian theatre: Giancarlo Sbragia, Sergio Fantoni, Valentina Fortunato, Luigi Vannucchi, Ivo Garrani, Paola Mannoni, Franco Parenti, Piero Mazzarella, Giorgio Albertazzi, Gianrico Tedeschi, Eros Pagni and with directors such as Virginio Puecher, Luigi Squarzina, Giorgio Marini, Andrée Ruth Shammah. He works with the Teatro La Maschera in Lugano directed by Alberto Canetta. He founded with Ketty Fusco and Silli Togni the Luganooteatro company, later Labyrinthos, of which he was artistic director. He calls upon directors Alberto and Gianni Buscaglia, Antonio Sixty, Silvano Piccardi, Marco Rampoldi and actors Claudio Moneta, Tatiana Winteler and many others to collaborate. He collaborates as an actor with Emanuele Santoro and with Luca Spadaro and Max Zampetti. He co-produces shows for the Teatro di Chiasso, the Teatro Sociale di Bellinzona and the LAC in Lugano where, for the opening, he writes, performs and signs the direction of a show about Chekhov: Non ogni notte la luna and is in the cast of Gabbiano directed by Carmelo Rifici. She starred in the film Armonica a bocca, Piero Natoli's first work with a screenplay by Marco Bellocchio, and in Laghi profondi by Bruno Soldini presented by RSI at the Venice Film Festival in the TV-movies section. With Carlo Vanzina, he has major roles in films with Pozzetto, Montesano and Paolo Villaggio. He works with Alberto Bevilacqua. He took part in Paolo Sorrentino's Le conseguenze dell'amore, alongside Toni Servillo. He has starred in many radio dramas produced by RSI.
17.11.2016
LAC, Lugano
